Examples of Style for Semicolon (ANSI and GNU Common Lisp Document)

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#### 2.4.4.7 Examples of Style for Semicolon

    ;;;; Math Utilities

    ;;; FIB computes the the Fibonacci function in the traditional
    ;;; recursive way.

    (defun fib (n)
      (check-type n integer)
      ;; At this point we're sure we have an integer argument.
      ;; Now we can get down to some serious computation.
      (cond ((< n 0)
             ;; Hey, this is just supposed to be a simple example.
             ;; Did you really expect me to handle the general case?
             (error "FIB got ~D as an argument." n))
            ((< n 2) n)             ;fib[0]=0 and fib[1]=1
            ;; The cheap cases didn't work.
            ;; Nothing more to do but recurse.
            (t (+ (fib (- n 1))     ;The traditional formula
                  (fib (- n 2)))))) ; is fib[n-1]+fib[n-2].